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Family and Education
bap. 19 Mar. 1626, o.s. Thomas Bruce, 3rd Bar. Bruce of Kinloss [S], (later earl of Elgin [S], and Bar. Bruce of Whorlton) and Anne (c.1604-27), da. and h. of Sir Robert Chichester, KB, of Raleigh, Devon. educ. travelled abroad (France, Italy, Switzerland) 1642-6; L. Inn 1672. m. 16 Feb. 1646, Diana (d. 8 Apr. 1689), da. Henry Grey, earl of Stamford, 8s. (5 d.v.p.), 9da. (3 d.v.p.). Collins, Peerage (1710), 283. d. 20 Oct. 1685; will 1 Dec. 1684, pr. 15 Dec. 1685. TNA, PROB 11/380.
Offices Held

Dep. earl marshal (jt.) 1673 – 84; PC 18 Oct. 1678 – 21 Apr. 1679, 26 Jan. 1681–d.; Luttrell, Brief Relation, i. 2, 64. ld. of trade and plantations 1678 – 79, 1681 – d.; ld. chamberlain July 1685 – d.

Commr. militia and c.-in-c., Beds. Mar. 1660, loyal and indigent officers, Beds., London, Westminster and Yorks. 1662; col. militia horse, Beds. Apr. 1660; ld. lt., Beds. (jt.) 1660 – Mar. 1667, (sole) Mar. 1667 – d., Hunts. 1681 – d., Cambs. Feb. 1685 – d.; freeman, Bedford 1661; constable, Tutbury Castle 1663 – 67; steward, honour of Leicester 1667 – d., honour of Ampthill 1671 – d., Bedford 1684–d., Pearse, Schedule of the Recs. of the Corporation of Bedford, 98. Kingston-upon-Thames Aug. 1685 – d.; recorder, Godmanchester 1679–d., R. Fox, Hist. of Godmanchester, 166–7. Bedford 1684 – d.; custos rot. Beds. 1681 – d., Hunts. 1681 – d.

FRS 1663, Council 1669, 1670, 1674, 1675 M. Hunter, Royal Society, 144–5.; steward, Royal Artillery Co. 1682; Verney ms mic. M636/37, newsletter 30 Nov. 1682. gov., Charterhouse Sept. 1685–d. Bodl. Tanner 31, f. 203; Davies, Charterhouse in London, 355.

Parlimentarian
BRUCE, Robert, Lord Bruce (1626-85), of Houghton Park, Ampthill, Beds.
Associated with: Houghton House, Ampthill, Beds.;VCH Beds. iii. 290.; Elgin/Ailesbury House, St John’, Mdx.E. Wood, Hist. Clerkenwell, 224.;
Likenesses

mezzotint by J. Smith, after Sir P. Lely, 1687, NPG D7181; line engraving by W. Faithorne, c.1664-80, NPG D22626.

Author
Littleton, Charles
Volume
Lords 1660-1715
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Religion
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